He promoted the need for a high school in the township. Fisher, in 1888, was the first superintendent and a teacher. The population of Grove City at the time was about 150. Joseph Bulen, the first mayor, was also a member of the school board with M. A two-room wood frame building was constructed on the lots located at the northeast corner of Park Street (then School Street) at Arbutus Avenue in 1870. On June 12, 1869, Elizabeth Campbell Breck, wife of Grove City’s founder, deeded the adjacent Lot 33 to the school board for the sum of $50.
Grove City wasn’t incorporated as a village until March 9, 1866. Grove City was founded in 1852 by William Foster Breck who, on May 2, 1862, sold Lot 32 to the Grove City Special School District for one cent. A student couldn’t advance to high school without passing the Boxwell Exam. Township schools provided instruction through the eighth grade. Their original building operated as a school until 1889 when Jackson Township rebuilt the school. Members of the Borror family first arrived here in 1809 just six years after Ohio became a state. It was a private school supported by families living in the area. The first school in Jackson Township opened in 1815 at Borror’s Corners.
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